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Cover of Comedy's Negative Knowledge: Infinite Life Reading List 17
Comedy's Negative Knowledge: Infinite Life Reading List 17
A comedy chat between twin sisters
Completed · 14 episodes
Buy for ¥48.00
Audio in Chinese
Use Humor to Resist the Banality of Everyday Life 1. Comedy Escalates Life's Disasters | Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions 2. Must Losers Fail Entirely by Themselves? | Michael Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit 3. How Can Women Live in the Big City? | Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls 4. When Succession Studies Meets Cringe Comedy | The Succession Scripts All Our Time Went into Traveling | Episode Five Delay Notice 5. Seeing Cows Fly at the Eye of the Storm | Alice Munro, Runaway and Post and Beam We Are Missing Another Deadline | Episode Six Delay Notice 6. If Life Cannot Be Good Enough, It Can at Least Be Unlucky Enough | Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent 7. Comedy Challenges What Cannot Be Joked About | Death and Hell Jokes 8. Women Who Broke Through to Write Themselves in Their Own Way | Three Biographies 9. Should Feminism Join Business or Resist Co-option? | Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once Bonus | Pang Ying × Yan Yi and Yan Yue: Is “Funny or Meaningful?” Even a Real Question? 10. When Absurd Rules Constrain and Guide Your Life | Trevor Noah, Born a Crime